Mission: Nepal 2015

Sponsor a Nepali child
There are more than 50 children cared for by Nepali partner ministry SARA outside of Kathmandu. We support SARA and these children through Project 1:27, which is based on James 1:27 (“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”). You can sponsor an orphan for US$50 a month. This will provide food, medicine, and clothing. But even more, it will show the love of Christ to a child and answer His command to “look afte...
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Megh on Mission: Nepal 2013 in front of a church in Nepal’s Mid-West that he and Climbing For Christ helped build.
Nationality: Nepalese. Occupation: Worker to expand the Kingdom of God and guide leading trekking teams all over Nepal and Tibet. Missions with C4C: Nepal 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (although Climbing For Christ was introduced to Megh in 2008).
How long have you climbed? Ten years. Type of climbing you do: Trekking. Helping Climbing For Christ when teams are in Nepal and doing the follow-up for those who are saved through C4C.
Highlight of climbing career:...
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Elaine Fallesen, front row center, with Michele Annibal, Damson Samson and the orphans supported by Climbing For Christ’s Project 1:27 in Malawi in 2014.
Nationality: USA. Occupation: Marketing Associate for MVP Health Care. Missions with C4C: Ararat 2014 and 2015; Haiti 2008 and 2009; Kilimanjaro 2011, Malawi 2014, 2016 and 2017, and Nepal 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
How long have you climbed? Since the early ’90s when our kids were small and we began discovering as a family the beautiful outdoors. Type of climbing you do: Climbing in His direction. Highlight of climbin...
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Merry CHRISTmas from Simikot
The church at Simikot on land purchased with funding provided by the LORD through Climbing For Christ.
The land has been purchased and the fundraising is underway for the construction of the first church building in the headquarters of Nepal’s Far West district of Humla. The church at Simikot extends CHRISTmas greetings to members and supporters of Climbing For Christ. The church project in Simikot is estimated to cost more than US$12,000. We are lifting in prayer for completion in 2016.
“And this is the testimony, that God gave us eterna...
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Land purchased for a ‘city on a hill’
By Gary Fallesen
President, Climbing For Christ
A happy man: Pastor Harka shows his joy and the document certifying ownership of the land he is standing on. Soon, we pray, a church building will stand there. (Photo by Megh Gurung)
We rejoice at the news that land has been purchased for construction of the first church at Simikot in Nepal’s Far West district of Humla. “I am so excited,” said brother Megh Gurung, who represented Climbing For Christ at the proceedings.
Megh and Pastor Harka signed the dea...
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Connecting through caring
By Elaine Fallesen
Climbing For Christ
It was what many of us used to call a “Kodak moment”:
Fourteen-year-old Chiring, an orphan in Kathmandu, Nepal, was nearly beside himself with happiness as he stared at a Facebook photo of his Project 1:27 sponsor on a cell phone.
“She is beautiful, she is beautiful,” he repeated as he studied the face of Nancy Kaiser. “I am grateful for her.”
Chiring with sponsor mom Nancy Kaiser’s photo on a cell phone. (Photo by Leanne Bohn)
Despite its frustrations, technol...
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Hiking into Torpa, a Buddhist village in the Far West district of Humla, Nepal. (Photo by Gary Fallesen, Mission: Nepal 2015)
Building the church
Climbing For Christ has conducted 10 Evangelic Expeditions to Nepal, including four trips to the remote Far West district of Humla from 2012 to 2015. When God first directed C4C to Humla (an area that is the size of the U.S. states of Delaware or Rhode Island with no roads or pavement beyond the mountainside landing strip), we found a 5-year-old house church with 10-to-12 believers in the district headquarters of Simikot. A group of brothers asked ...
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By Gary Fallesen
Climbing For Christ
Friday, Oct. 16
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‎“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” – Proverbs 3:6 (ESV)
God is good, this much we know. When we abide in Him and Him in us, there is no shortage of blessed moments we get to experience. Such was the time on this trip – more of a journey for me than an Evangelic Expedition. I traveled by His side and under His wing. Thank You, Jesus!
I was honored to participate in a movement of brothers and sisters in Christ who are centered on delivering the Good News to u...
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Photo of the Week by Gary Fallesen: Hiking past mani stones – used for Buddhist prayer – outside the Langtang village of Thuman during Mission: Nepal (Jan.-Feb.) 2012.
Here comes the Son
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” – John 10:9 (KJV)
The village of Thuman in Langtang National Park is a Buddhist stronghold with a population of about 2,200 – none of whom are Christian. Our six-person mission team visited there on the third day of evangelistic trek. We were greeted by a drum...
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God smiles on a Nepal family
By Gary Fallesen
Climbing For Christ president
Sumitra Pariyar has endured various trials in her short life. At the age of 7, she suffered a debilitating fever that left her crippled. In 2007, on CHRISTmas day, her father carried her paralyzed body to what was then a house church in the Central Nepal village of Dapcha. He had tried everything to help Sumitra.
The small group of Christians in Dapcha at the time prayed for Sumitra’s healing – and she walked again. The Pariyar family surrendered their lives to Jesus.
Sumitra has continued to h...
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Jordan Rowley, enjoying the Cordillera Blanca during Mission: Peru 2015.
Nationality: American (true citizenship in Heaven). Occupation: Since January 2011, I have been incredibly blessed to serve as the spiritual coordinator with Climbing For Christ! Missions with C4C: Haiti 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013 (January and November); Kilimanjaro 2014 (November) and 2015; Nepal 2013, 2015 and 2017, and Peru 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
How long have you climbed? I’ve always enjoyed spending time outdoors, however, since working with Climbing For Christ I have taken climbing mor...
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Death and life in Nepal
By Gary Fallesen
Founding president, Climbing For Christ
Padam, right, praying to accept Jesus with (left to right) brother Megh, Dr. Matthew, and another new believer named Prem on March 23. (Photo by Gary Fallesen)
Padam was one of two young men who came to see our doctors on the rooftop where we had camped in the village of Takla during Mission: Nepal 2015 in late March. This was our first visit to Takla in four Evangelic Expeditions to the Far West district of Humla.
Dr. Matthew Fisher of Canada and our Nepalese brother Megh Gurung offered medical a...
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A girl from the village of Gatlang, Nepal smiles after receiving a sketch book (among other things) from brother Megh and a relief team serving earthquake victims in Langtang. (Photo by Megh Gurung)
CLICK HERE to read “Death and life in Nepal” – a Mission Moments story.

C4C-sponsored orphanage back to normal
Painting the repaired orphanage – inside and out. (Photo by Tej Rokka)
Walls, water and the solar-power system have been repaired at the SARA orphanage that is sponsored by Climbing For Christ. “The children are fine,” said Pastor Tej Rokka, a C4C member and founder of the Savior Alone Redeems Asians ministry based in Kathmandu, “and their school has started.”
Life has returned to some sense of normalcy. But, on Wednesday (June 10), “there were again quite big aftershocks,” Tej said. “And people got ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Pastor Tej Rokka returned Monday night (May 25) from several days in East Nepal for training among the churches. His wife, Bidhya, spoke to more than 60 women, presenting them with gifts delivered by Leanne Bohn and Elaine Fallesen during Mission: Nepal 2015 in March. Tej taught about 45 pastors and church leaders about the making of disciples.
“Let me thank God for what He has done through us in the midst of such a situation,” Tej said, referring to the work that goes on amidst the recovery from devastating earthquakes.
“I know very well how it...
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Surviving in Nepal
“I made a temporary shelter on our church ground,” said Climbing For Christ’s Megh Gurung (in photo above taken on May 23 at the Milap church on the outskirts of Kathmandu). “Some of the believers are sleeping there at night.”
CLICK HERE for Mission Moments: Earthquakes in Nepal.
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The plastic tarp that has served as home to the SARA orphans since their orphanage was damaged in the April 25 earthquake. (Photo by Tej Rokka)
Funds are being raised by Climbing For Christ to repair the orphanage. To help, please send donations to Climbing For Christ, c/o Nepal Earthquake Relief, P.O. Box 16290, Rochester, NY 14616-0290. Or CLICK HERE and give online via PayPal. Follow up your PayPal donation with an email to info@ClimbingForChrist.org stating that the gift is intended for earthquake relief. Dhanyabad (thank you)!
CLICK HERE for updates on the Nepal earthquake aft...
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Pastor Tej and Elaine Fallesen during worship at his Kathmandu church in March. (Photo by Leanne Bohn/Mission: Nepal 2015)
By Gary Fallesen
Founding president, Climbing For Christ
Worship was nearly over at the main SARA church in Kathmandu on Saturday, April 25 when the lights went out and the pulpit fell away from Pastor Tej Rokka. “I did not know what to do because the hall was full of people of all ages and I wanted to run out and save myself, but I saw my flock crying without help,” Tej said on Monday – about 60 hours after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake changed life in N...
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Third Day song Soul on Fire is performed by the children at the SARA orphanage outside Kathmandu, Nepal.
Climbing For Christ visited the children at an orphanage of partner ministry SARA (Savior Alone Redeems Asians) as part of Mission: Nepal 2015. The children enjoyed lessons about the Trinity, crafts, stories and songs – especially Third Day’s song Soul on Fire.
C4C members support a number of orphans there, but there are more in need of sponsors. CLICK HERE to learn more and sponsor a child.
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